Science / Environment / Energy

This Market Business News category includes all of our articles that are related to science or the environment. This includes research projects in science and events that have an impact on the environment (be it beneficial or detrimental). This page is where you will find information on what is happening in the renewable energy industry, news to do with the electric or hybrid vehicle market, and information about electricity consumption, etc.

Bright pink plastic bottles washed up on beaches of Cornwall

Pink plastic detergent bottles all over Cornish beaches

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Pink plastic detergent bottles have been found washed up on Cornish beaches – they probably came from a ship during the recent storms, says...
Nadine the socially intelligent robot is friendly and nice

Socially intelligent robot is friendly and remembers all your nice chats with her

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Nadine is a socially intelligent robot who is friendly, greets you back, makes eye contact, and remembers all the nice chats you had with...
Element 117 added to periodic table

Periodic Table gets four new chemical elements

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The periodic table gets four new chemical elements - 113, 115, 117 and 118 - so the seventh row in the scheme is now...
Lion hunt raffle outcry across the world

Lion hunt raffle cancelled by conservation safari

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An appalling lion hunt raffle has been cancelled. It had been organized by a conservation safari park that is supposed to protect the animals,...
Mawsons Hut 100 years later

Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica has several artefacts including balaclava

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Mawson's Hut, in the far eastern sector of the Australian Antarctic Territory, has many 100-year-old artefacts, say heritage experts as they cut away at...
Shoot a lion has the whole world shocked

SHOOT A LION raffle by Bubye Valley Conservancy shocks the world

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The world is again shocked, this time by a SHOOT A LION raffle in which the winner either gets a lion trophy he or...
Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip saved British engineering says former BP boss Lord Browne

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Prince Philip saved British engineering in the 1970s, says former BP boss John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley (Lord Browne). According to Lord Browne,...
Kunekune pigs block A21 after escaping from field

Cute pigs close down A21 near M25 for several hours

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The London-to-Hastings trunk road, the A21, was closed down by a group of  cute Kunekune pigs that escaped from a farm and were probably...
Moon base by 2030 planned by European Space Agency

Manned moon base by 2030 to discover alien life and explore Universe

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A manned moon base by 2030 is being planned by the European Space Agency (ESA), the aim being explore the solar system, the Universe,...
Ninja Lanternshark or Etmopterus benchleyi

Ninja Lanternshark glows in the dark is a newly discovered species

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The newly discovered Ninja Lanternshark that glows in the dark, has bulbous eyes and jet-black skin, is officially called Etmopterus benchleyi, after Peter Benchley...